Reflector.



No. 795,002. PATENTED JULY v25, 1905.

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ROBERT FYFE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

REFLECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1905.

Application iilerl November 18, 1904. Serial No. 233,378.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT FYFE, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Reectors, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in reflectors; and it consistsin the novel arrangement and combination of parts more fully set forthin the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan of a street car, showing myinvention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan of the reiiectorattached to a car. Fig. 3 is an elevation thereof or as viewed againstthe side of the car. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line 4 4 of Fig.3, and Fig. 5 is a cross-section on line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

The present invention is a qualification of the construction ofreflector shown and described in United States Letters Patent issued tome under date of June 9, 1903, numbered 730,361, and while contemplatingand having for its object the same purposes as the patented device thepresent construction is more specially adapted for vestibule-cars-thatis, cars in which the front platform is en tirely inclosed by glasspanels which protect the motorman from the elements.

In detail the invention may be described as follows:

Referring to the drawings, O represents a vestibule-car, the frontplatform being inclosed by glass panels-a construction well understoodand to which I make no claim. Secured to the side of the vestibule,adjacent the front thereof, is a bracket formed of substantiallytriangular top and bottom wings 1 1 and a suitable base 2, the latterbeing secured by screws directly to the car. Mounted between the lobesor lugs 3 3, formed at the forward vertices of the wings, is a hinge-pin4, about which is wrapped a resilient coiled spring 5, one end of thespring bearing against the base 2 and the opposite end bearing againstthe base of the forked end of an oscillating arm 6, looped about thehinge-pin 4 on either side of the coil portion of the spring, the springunder the circumstances tending to oscillate the arm outwardly, in whichoutward oscillation, however, it is limited by a pin 7, disposed betweenthe rear outer vertices of the wings. rIhe arm 6 extends a suitabledistance rearwardly beyond the bracket and carries a reflector or mirrorM, the back of which is provided with a sleeve` 8, longitudinally androtatably adjustable on the said arm. The rear end of the sleeve is,moreover, provided with an ear or lug 9, to which the mirror is directlypivoted, thereby providing for an angular adjustment of the mirror in aplane passing through the axis of rotation of the sleeve, thus makingthe adjustment of the mirror practically universalthat is to say, makingit adjustable in all directions. The sleeve when adjusted to the properdistance from the axis of oscillation of the arm 6 is secured in placeby the binding-screw 10. The rays of light coming from any object orperson P will be reflected, and the motorman can ascertain withoutleaving his post whether a passenger has boarded the car or stepped onsafely therefrom, all as fully set forth in the patent referred to. y

rIhe object of the spring5 is twofold. In the rst place it forces the jarm 6 outwardly to the proper inclined position to enable the reiiectorto receive the light-rays coming from any objectin the rear, and in thesecond place in the event of the arm 6 colliding with a Vehicle in thestreet coming in opposite direction to the car the spring will permitthe arm to yield inwardly (see dotted position thereof in Fig. 2) andescape any serious damage, or should the car be standing still and avehicle come in the same direction and liable to strike against the freeend of the arm the motorman can draw the arm inward by pulling on a cordS, attached to the arm, so that in either case the danger of damage tothe arm is avoided.

I may of course depart from the details herein shown without affectingeither the nature or spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In combination with acar, a bracket secured thereto, a spring-controlled oscillating armpivoted to the bracket and projecting rearwardly at a suitableinclination to the car, means on the bracket for limiting the outwardoscillation of the arm, and a reector carried thereby, substantially asset forth.

2. In combination with a car, a spring-controlled oscillating armcarried by the side of the car, and swinging about a fixed pivot andprojecting rearwardly at an inclination to such side, and a mirrormountedon the arm, substantially as set forth.

3. As an article of manufacture, a reiiector comprising a bracket, an-arm hing'ed at one end within the bracket, a spring for normallyswinging the arm to one side of the bracket, means carried by thebracket for limiting the arm in such lateral swing, and a reflectorcarried by the arm, substantially as set forth.

4. As an articleof manufacture, a reflector comprising a bracket havinga base and top and bottom wings, a hinge-pin mounted between the wingsat the front of the bracket and adjacentto the base thereof, a forkedarm looped about the pin, a spring coiled about the pin between the armsof the fork and hav- ROBERT FYFE.

lVitnesses:

EMIL STAREK, M. B. BELT.

